From: Dave Airlie (airlied at domain csn.ul.ie)
Date: Thu 14 Jun 2001 - 12:03:03 IST
looks like output from slocate or something like that.. probably crashed
or rebooted half way through the sort phase..
Dave.
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Barry Redmond wrote:
> A text file called /tmp/sort3167900000 has appeared on one of my
> servers with a date of a couple of weeks ago. It contains a list of
> all files on the machine. Owner=nobody, group=nogroup.
>
> Is this a by-product of some known legitimate activity, or might it
> indicate a hack attempt, or should I look to errors in my own cgi
> scripts for the cause? Only myself and one other have accounts
> on the machine.
>
> Thanks,
> Barry Redmond
>
>
>
-- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at domain skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DecStation / Linux VAX / ILUG person
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